Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Self-financing is an anomaly in TV, which doesn't have the same infrastructure to support independent production as film. But in the case of 2024's, it was the only option that allowed creators Mark Duplass and Mel Eslyn the freedom to make the unprecedented work they envisioned.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Science fiction doesn't have to be all spaceships and robots. A romantic comedy also can be weird as hell.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Won't somebody think of the middle-aged men? In truth, the friendships and inner lives of men young, old, and in between are chronically ignored by Hollywood, which would rather see even the elderly among them blow up bad guys than admit to having feelings.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Shows about chosen family tend to be a bit saccharine--bless these beautiful misfits going out into the world and finding in each other the love and support their awful parents never gave them! This tart 2023 British dramedy takes a scalpel to the codependent relationship between Costello (Daisy May Cooper), a destitute peep-show dancer and single mum who dreams of becoming a writer, and her manipulative best friend, Selby ( Jack Farthing), an upper-class gay man who just got out of prison.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. With a few wonderful exceptions that proved the rule (,), the network sitcom landscape of the 2010s was a graveyard of glib titles, gimmicky premises, and mercifully short runs. At first glance, looked like more of the same.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. If you can't beat the trauma plot that has come to dominate narrative art forms, you might as well get exceedingly weird and exuberantly dark with it. That seems to be the theory, anyway, behind this British black comedy about a family of women desperate to appease--but already driven mad by--the patriarchal forces that control their lives.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Pete Davidson is either the luckiest man in Hollywood or a guy cursed with an undeserved bad rap. Few seem to have moderate opinions on the comedian, and how you view him likely depends on how much of his fame you attribute to innate talent and how much you write him off as a cynically self-dramatizing zillennial, milking his drug issues, mental health struggles, and parade of superstar girlfriends for attention.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. For every identity that is stereotyped or marginalized in mainstream pop culture, there are thousands, if not millions, of very different people whose individuality gets erased in the process. So what better way to counter decades of representational flattening than with a show whose central characters are young Londoners who share that label but little besides it--and then throw them together in a punk band?

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is the most celebrated British TV creator of her generation. Her blistering 2016 traumedy broke big the moment it crossed the Atlantic via co-producer Prime Video, fueling rapturous reviews and spirited discourse about the comedy of female sexuality. A few years later, the surprisingly metaphysical second season dominated the Emmys, made " Hot Priest " Andrew Scott a sex symbol, and even got a shout-out from Barack Obama .

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. A whole subgenre of sitcoms revolves around odd couples: Felix and Oscar, Abbi and Ilana, Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy. Just as deserving of a place in that canon are Julio (co-creator Chris Estrada) and Luis (Frankie Quiñones), the cousins at the center of the uproarious two-season Hulu comedy (2022-2023). When they were kids, mischievous Luis bullied geeky Julio.